The case of Publicspending.gr: Greek

public spending in a nutshell

M. Vafopoulos, M. Meimaris, A. Papantoniou, I. Anagnostopoulos,

G. Alexiou, I. Avraam, I. Xidias, G. Vafeiadis and V. LoumosNational Technical University of Athens

USING OPEN DATA: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism, Brussels, 19,20/6/12

Apps, Apps, Apps…..

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WHERE MY MONEY GOES in Greece publicspending.gr

• the first LOD App in Greece• daily updates• open spending linked data,

endpoint & visualizations

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WHERE MY MONEY GOES in Greece publicspending.gr

• Input 1.“Diavgeia” (all public spending decisions online daily )ΕΧ-ΑΝΤΕ, API, average data quality, rich information• Payer, payee (amount, VAT number, name)• CPA 2008: Classification of products by Activity• CPV 2008: Common Procurement Vocabulary• Original decision text in pdf2. TAXIS (official Tax Information System)

VAT number validation and profile request

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Just numbers…Spending decisions: 1.521.556Spending amount: ~ 27 billion euros RDF Triples: 42.252.565Payers: 31.115Payees: 374.729Active CPV categories: 6.323 / 9.454Active CPA categories: 1.642/(~10.000)

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Website live

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Classification of products by ActivityPAYERS

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Classification of products by ActivityPAYEES

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Query for top CPV Code 45000000-7 “Construction Works” and its substituent cpv codes

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WHERE MY MONEY GOESlocal spending in EU level

demo ① Litchfield district–NUTS LAU1 region–population ≈100k

② Find places with similar characteristics in Greece

(Dbpedia)10

Dbpedia query http://dbpedia.org/sparql

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select * where{ ?mun dbpprop:popMunicipality ?a .FILTER(?a>90000 && ?a <120000)}

Comparative statistics

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public spending

SPARQL Query about Kalithea in publicspending.gr and in the Litchfield endpoint

• not compatible product/service classifications (ontology alignment needed)

• Litchfield decisions: >500 £• Kalithea decisions: no limitations

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public spending: results

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public spending: comparisons

• Litchfield repair expenses = 0.44%

• Kalithea repair expenses = 0.54%

• Can you think of others?15

WHERE MY MONEY GOESinterlinking business in global scale

• building a Greek business repository (ongoing)

• examining global interconnections (e.g. Open

Corporates, CPA->NAICS)

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some last thoughtsofirst App on the Greek LODo try to initiate the virtuous cycle

of creationoco-operations &

interconnections are in the top of our agenda

oget people to be involved

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appendix

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Checklist ① Ontology – enriching with core vocub. ② Basic visualizations ③ SPARQL endpoint - thedatahub④ Interconnections– Product classifications – Open Corporates– Greek LOD (e-proc, geodata, dbpedia)– EU and US (CPV -> NAICS)

⑤ Demos & services⑥ Public awareness - working with the media ,

hackathons, courses, theses 20

Counting spending decisions

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publicspending.gr architecture

Ontologyobuild on the approach of the UK

payment ontology and Core Bus. Voc.

oCPV, CPAoWESO PSC ontology, OC, data

cube, Organization ontology, …

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publicspending.gr ontology